The Lushan MS7.0 earthquake on 20 April 2013: A high-angle thrust event

Acta Geophysica Sinica

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1418-1424

  Zeng, Xiang Fang ^a   Luo, Yan ^b   Han, Li Bo ^b   Shi, Yao Lin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Focal mechanism; High angle thrust event; Regional and teleseismic joint inversion

Indexed keywords

RANDOM ERRORS; SEISMIC WAVES;

FOCAL MECHANISM; HIGH-ANGLE THRUST EVENT; INVERSION METHODS; INVERSION RESULTS; JOINT INVERSION; RANDOM PERTURBATIONS; SEISMIC VELOCITY MODELS; TELESEISMIC WAVEFORMS;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEISMIC DATA; THRUST; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

LUSHAN; TAIWAN;

EID: 84878854068     PISSN: 00015733     EISSN: 08989591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.6038/cjg20130437     Document Type: Article

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